RI President's Representative
to our District Conference - James Aydelotte, Charming
and Insightful Rotarian
Born in New Orleans, James grew up in Memphis TN and Chincoteague
Island VA. After earning several degrees, including a Ph.D. while
studying one year in Germany as a Rotary Scholar, he taught European
history at the college level where he also served as an Academic Dean.
In 1980 he joined the staff at the Rotary International Secretariat in
Evanston. As a senior manager, he served first as manager of The
Rotary Foundation, then secretary of the international Board of Directors
of RI, next executive assistant to the General Secretary, and later to the
President of RI.
While
studying at Cambridge University, England, James met and married Margaret,
a native of Britain, and now a US citizen. Margaret, also a Ph.D.,
spend 40 years in college and university teaching and medical research,
working especially on osteoarthritis.
Group Study
Exchange with Turks in Full Swing!
for bios
and more data
(click here)
On
Friday April 27 the five members of the Group Study Exchange Team from
Rotary District 2440 led by Ilknur Ozer arrived in Savannah after 24
hours of travel to begin their tour of our district with St. Simmons on
Sunday. On Friday May 4 our team led by Patrick Roche from Macon will
depart for Turkey. Fortunately both teams were in Savannah on Saturday
April 28 and the members of the two teams could have the opportunity to
meet each other for pizza and begin to learn about each other's country
and culture. For example, we learned that the typical breakfast in
Turkey is tomatoes, bread, cheese, olives, cucumbers and honey or jam.
The team from Turkey is fluent in English and two team members are
English teachers and are very good with even the nuances of English. We
wish both teams the best for their exchange which will become one of the
benchmark experiences of their lives, we expect. Our thanks to Patrick
Roche, an MD at Mercer Medical school for taking a month to lead the
team and be away from his wife, who wishes that she could be on the trip
too. You can follow our team during their trip on their Facebook page
which is
https://www.facebook.com/onrozer
Combined Outgoing and Incoming GSE Teams.
Outgoing team
Facebook address
http://www.facebook.com/D6920GSE2012
Targeting the 'next
generation of Rotarians'
April 20, 2012
By Adam
Van Brimmer
The Savannah New-Press
Gordon
Matthews has listened to countless speakers in his decades as a Rotarian.
One made
a particular impression on the current governor of the Southeast Georgia
District of Rotary International. The young woman, called to speak during
the 2010 Rotary convention in Montreal, had recently started a new Rotary
Club geared toward young professionals.(Read More)
.
Speaker Database Now Available for Clubs
Members value the weekly meeting much more when the speaker is interesting
– but it is not always easy to find really good speakers. Now clubs in
6920 have a new resource developed by our district. Please begin to add
your favorite club program speakers to the database so that other clubs
can benefit from your experience. Of course speakers will rarely be
willing to travel to the far corners of 6920 and will be more likely to
speak to clubs within an hour or so of their location so we have provided
a geographic access to this new data base, as you will see
(Click here) or use Tab in Clubs
list.
